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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means to fear something greatly and/or to be in extreme apprehension of something?
(a) Dread.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Visage.
(d) Fatigue.

2. What does the traveler attempt to give to Wanda before the couple departs, leaving him at the concentration camp, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) A pearl bracelet.
(b) A gold ring.
(c) A piece of amber.
(d) A photograph.

3. What is the Brick Gothic church that was “destroyed in the thirteenth century by Asian Tatars” and rebuilt in the fourteenth century, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(b) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(c) Wawel Cathedral.
(d) St. Mary’s Basilica.

4. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Charlemagne’s.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci’s.
(c) Count Ludovico Sforza’s.
(d) King Henry VIII’s.

5. When was Tadeusz Borowski born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?

2. What month is it that the traveler arrives in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

3. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?

4. The traveler learns upon arriving in the city that the buses that go to his destination won’t be available before when, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

5. What does the traveler order for Wanda to drink when they return to the café for his luggage in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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